Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2010/02/23

Summary

These weekly posts explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. There’s a lengthy overview of the Add-on Review Process posted in this blog as well. We’re just getting started with these, so your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Most nominations are being reviewed within 3 weeks. Our goal is to reduce this to 2 weeks before April.

Most updates are being reviewed within a week. We want to reduce this even more in the future, but nominations are the current priority.

Notes for Developers

Bugzilla information for editors. How to file AMO bugs, how to flag bugs relevant for editors, and information on current and future AMO version releases. Let us/me know if you want to help fixing AMO bugs. Thanks!

I’m currently working on porting the XUL School Tutorial for Extension Developers to MDC. This tutorial was originally developed by Glaxstar (now Appcoast) back when I worked for them. I wrote most of it, and now Appcoast has graciously donated the full tutorial contents to Mozilla. I expect to have ported all of the material within a week or so.

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Well, if you could do what you wrote for real and also solve all the bugs at AMO… it would be nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, for my addon `BeeFree’, i’m using my own updating tool, because i don’t like how AMO works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It isn’t only about bugs blocking updates, slowdowns, and all the possible unexpected hassles you should face every time you’re uploading your addon at AMO!!!!!!!!!

I think that the system used at AMO to give updates to users is very bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s bad, because it’s a system that isn’t respecting users!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These stats are gathered from the update pings add-ons send to look for new versions, and are completely anonymous. As almost all of you already know, Mozilla makes an extraordinarily serious commitment to protect user privacy.

yeah, they were introduced long time ago, but i didn’t knew it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How many people know it? aside from old and new addons developers, i don’t think that many know about AMO’s statistics dashboards!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I also know that Mozilla takes user’s privacy seriously!!!!!!!!
That’s why i find very suspicious the fact that Firefox hasn’t one option like “Allow AMO to collect my addons usage information” unchecked by default!!!!!!!! what is even more suspicious, is that such a option doesn’t exists at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!